Reason for forming:
We wanted to form a band like this for cathartic reasons but also for empowering ones. Some of us are introverted, AFAB, queer, and/or femme, and it feels good to be in a heavy, fast band because people wouldn’t necessarily expect that from us. its fun to fuck with peoples perceptions on what art you should make based on your appearance or your personality. fuck that shit.

In Flux (photo by BRYAN)

What are your lyrics about?
Depression, death, fucked up family dynamics, strength through solidarity and friendship, being genderqueer, patriarchal bullshit.

How would you describe your sound?
Sprinkled ignorance admist the d-beat.

What’s in the future for this band?
Demo tape out on GET BETTER records soon!

Date & location formed:
late 2015 (played our first show in February 2016) Ottawa Ontario, Canada.

Reason for forming:
Our singer and first bassist drunkenly talking about forming a band.

The CHUDS (photo by Fig Reilly)

What are your lyrics about?
Our Lyrics are about the pain/struggle/frustrations of being a poor, non passing trans woman and the dehumanizing effects of how society treats you when you don’t fit. We sing about trans phobia in punk and the silence of so-called allies. We sing about the constant struggle to survive and the drugs we do to cope. Mostly it’s just the pissed of screaming of a woman trying to survive by any means necessary.

How would you describe your sound?
Our influences are grunge, noise rock and hardcore.

What’s in the future for this band?
Writing new songs, playing as many shows as we can, touring and just trying to live through the next day.

Reason for forming:
Because what else are you going to do in Cleveland?

Vanilla Poppers photo by Kat Cade)

What are your lyrics about?
Being a creep. Turning to the bottle. SNIFFING POPPERS. Having your rags, living in the 21st century, boys, the usual bullshit.

How would you describe your sound?
I dunno, punk? It’s fast, it has a lot of hardcore tendencies but the high pitched vocals (the singer is a guy punching himself in the nuts over the duration of the whole set) make it all yappy. We did a COMES cover but then we also wanted to cover ZOLAR X and then CRISIS so it’s kinda across the board. RAMONES FOREVER.

What’s in the future for this band?
A 3 week US tour in August.
A 7″ off Negative Jazz and a 7″ off Lumpy sometime after that.
A 12″ if we don’t kill each other with love first